The Director of National Intelligence Says Russia Poses a Threat to Midterm Elections. But Trump Doesn’t Seem to Care.
Michael Kappeler/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, Donald Trump produced another stunner when he declared that Russia should be readmitted to the G7. The country had been booted out of this group of leading industrialized nations following Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine in 2014.…
Trump Says He’ll Use “My Touch, My Feel” To Assess Kim Jong-un’s Nuclear Plans
President Donald Trump attends a breakfast with G7 leaders and members of the Gender Equality Advisory Council in Quebec City. Michael Kappeler/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly before bailing out early on the Group of 7 nations meetings held outside of Quebec City this weekend, President Trump made some curious…
Rudy Giuliani Says Trump Shouldn’t Testify Because “Our Recollection Keeps Changing”
Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rudy Giuliani is supposed to be on cleanup duty, but he keeps making a mess. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” the president’s personal attorney explained that it might be a bad idea for Trump…
Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration’s Creepy War on Language
Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared at TomDispatch.com. Consider us officially in an Orwellian world, though we only half realize it. While we were barely looking, significant parts of an American language long familiar to us quite literally, and in a remarkably coherent way, went…
Gina Haspel, Trump’s Nominee to Head the CIA, Won’t Say If Torture Is Immoral
CIA nominee Gina Haspel is sworn in during a confirmation hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, May 9, 2018 in Washington.Alex Brandon/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gina Haspel, the acting head of the CIA and President Donald Trump’s nominee to become its next director, repeatedly…
North Korea Releases Three Detained Americans
Al Drago/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The three Americans detained in North Korea have been released and are making their way back to the US with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter Wednesday morning. The move comes as Trump and North Korean leader Kim…